Cosmological History: from Gravitational Waves to Exoplanets

Here you can find the slides and the hands-on section exercises we used during the course on Gravitational Wave Astrophysics. Any comment is welcome.

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Lectures

Lecture 1 Lecture 2 Lecture 3 Lecture 4

Hands-on

Section 1

• clone cosmo$\mathcal{R}$ate repository https://gitlab.com/Filippo.santoliquido/cosmo_rate_public

• install the conda envirorment following the instruction

• activate the envirorment by doing conda activate cosmo_env

• clone GWFish git repository at https://github.com/janosch314/GWFish

• open and run the notebook gwfish_tutorial.ipynb (ignore conda environment instructions)

• hint :)

Section 2

• download cosmo$\mathcal{R}$ate userguide to learn how to use the code
• Exercises:
  • create a figure where you compare the primary mass distribution $m_1$ at different redshifts ($z = 0, 2, 8$) of binary black holes (BBHs) evaluated with two different values of $\sigma_Z = 0.1, 0.6$. Use the astrophysical model provided. Hint: you need to update also the variable sim_name
  • Do the same for BHNSs

Section 3

• download this Jupyter notebook and this file containing the catalogs (~ 10 MB). Open jupyter lab with cosmo_env kernel in the same folder where you downloaded the data. [A special thank goes to Alessandro Trani for preparing this exercises.]